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Today's Tids Issue 3,532

Opening Stuff:

Well, there is nothing going on…except maybe everything. And everything is getting tedious…and weird, really weird. How many times can you write about the same things that are becoming so trite, and make it look new and different?

More and more regular people are looking at the Repub debate stage and the post show outbursts, wondering how they could ever bring themselves to vote for any of them.

I cancelled my twitter account. I don’t want to sound paranoid, but I was pretty sure people were following me.

As we see more and more black demonstrations, more than several based on misinformation or contrived instances, we also are seeing a rise in cops being shot and killed at an unprecedented rate. In just the last week, 6 fine policemen doing their duties in towns and cities across the USA were murdered in cold blood. America is losing many of its good innate qualities at an alarming and more rapid rate. One of them is respect for authority, from parents to teachers to, yes, policemen and women. Then, perhaps it is the authority at the top of the chain that is causing the skepticism, or encouraging rampant misbehavior.

I pause for a moment in memory for six fine policemen cut down.

I suspect that a lot of Repubs will be looking to the Congress to “Bork” whoever Obama nominates for Supreme court. They've been waiting for over 35 years.

The Question:

Triple Header day! 1. Where was the Red Cross founded? 2. What was the name of the treaty that ended the War of 1812. 3. Who or what is “Eagles of Death Metal”?

The Headlines:

--Crude Prices Rising; US Stock Futures Look Healthy Again, Market Opening In Triple Digits; New Optimism Has Dollar Surging; Several Big Investors Trim Apple Holdings; Asia Stocks Down, Euro up.

--New Quinnipiac Poll Released This Morning Has Sanders And Clinton In Virtual Tie Nationally, In Nevada; Trump Ups His Lead To Highest Total Yet, With Rubio Second; Blacks Seem To be Moving Ito Sanders' Camp..

--US Jest Fly Over South Korea In Show Of Strength, Solidarity.

--Name Of Sri Srinivasan Trickles Out As Possible SC nominee; Environmentalists Hate Him for His Support Of Big Fossil Fuel Companies.

--ISIS Facing Cash Shortage Cuts Back On Promised recruiting Perks.

--German Shorthaired Pointer Wins Best of Show At Westminster.

--Junk Bond Market Edging Towards Refinancing Cliff.

I watched the Obama talk yesterday. His opener was a long winded praise for basically nothing. Ironically, just after he reveled in the efforts of the Southeast Asian group and its mission for peace and harmony and fight against climate change, it was revealed in a newscast that Photos from space had shown that China had built a Surface-to-Air Missile installation on the contested manmade islands! Whoops.

You know you are paranoid when you can’t think of anything that’s your fault.

When I read of these cop killings, plus what appears to be an increase in vicious attacks in formerly civilized areas of cities and towns, I’m inclined to think that the US is turning into a lawless Mexico.

Yesterday a train from China brought all kinds of goodies to Iran. Today the Iran delegation went to Moscow to further cement that growing relationship. The economic and military power base of the world could be changing right before our eyes. I hope somebody I DC is watching. Ten years ago we had the Axis of Evil. Today we have the Axis of Opposition, which is bigger and more substantive.

The president’s speeches are definitely a cure for insomnia. Insomnia bin Obama.

On the Michael Savage show last night, I hear that Donald Trump didn’t deny Savage’s theory that Scalia may have been smothered to death with a pillow had possibilities.

Being paranoid means that you never have to think that you are alone.

ESPN’s use of the floor level camera during the All-Star game was a travesty.

While yesterday after the 0-Man blasted the unsavory behavior of Repub candidates before the world, he certainly didn’t go out of his way to diminish Bernie Sanders’ rise.

The Parking Lot: Chapter 47.

    Nancy presented her key to the banker, signed the entry book and was led downstairs to the basement of the big bank in Providence and her safe deposit box. It was more than safe repository of personal valuables; it was the history and ownership of a region. It was crammed with legal documents from over 250 years.  

   Nancy had made arrangements to visit the Supreme Court of the state, which she knew would be necessary for a project this big and complex. In fact, she thought it is really fairly simple, but legal wrangling she new will confuse it. She thumbed through the papers, picking several key documents. She felt better than she had in months, knowing that finally the intimidation and killing was over and it was all legal wrangling from now on. She had all of the cards.

    She walked briskly up the stairs a manila envelope under arm that would bring her back into her family’s history and provide a new future to the town once called Sakonnet. As she felt the papers warming against her body she wondered once again what this Richard Hicks was like, and indeed all of the past family which had given her so much.

   Outside, she looked up the street towards Kennedy Square and saw Jared waiting in the car. She stopped for a moment and just stared at him. He has been so important to her, yet she could put a finger on why. He was old and relaxed and she was younger and energetic. But within that quiet demeanor there was something deeper, special that gave her more confidence. I don’t fall in love, she thought, so that couldn’t be it. She started walking and Jared looked up to see her, smiling broadly as ever.

   A lone man reading a paper on a park bench folded it up and his eyes followed Nancy. He wasn’t your basic park pervert.

The Answer:

1. The Red Cross was founded in Geneva Switzerland. 2. The War of 1812 was pretty significant in the development of the USA, but generally seen as the step child of the Revolutionary War. The war ended officially with the Treaty of Ghent. 3. If you have been paying attention, you knew that Eagles Death Metal was the band playing when the ISIS Terrorists assaulted the concert in Paris.

Protesting deepens the divide.

Do paranoid schizophrenic agnostic dyslectic insomniacs lie awake at night wondering if they might be the dog out to get them?

See, I didn’t have anything to write about today. But what I did, makes me sad.